Cincinnati Type Foundry sale flyer

We recently purchased this 11″ x 17″ sale flyer. Typographic ephemera typically consists of beautiful broadsides from foundries, advertising a new typeface on high-quality paper, but this is a notice of a sale of “secondhand job type” printed on low-quality paper. It was likely distributed to print shops in the region served by the Cincinnati Type Foundry. These faces would have been used in “job printing,” business cards, stationery, etc.

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There‘s a mention of the “War of 1861,” so we know that it was printed after what became better known as the Civil War. In 1892 Cincinnati Type Foundry was merged into American Type Founders. View a larger scan of the entire flyer.